VESPER (2025) Original Mixed-media Painting by Johna Gussoni
75 x 155 x 4cm (framed)
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Original artwork description
Comprising around 4,500 tobacco sticks, the work takes shape from waste material, having served its purpose and destined to end its life cycle in neglect. Through recovery and reconfiguration, these fragments are instead given a new expressive potential, transforming into visual material.
The title, Vesper, evokes the evening hour, the time of sunset: that suspended moment when the day slowly fades and light transforms into atmosphere. The chromatic transition from fuchsia to orange echoes the very colours of the sky as the sun sets, conveying a warm yet ephemeral vibration. The fragmentation of the surface amplifies this sensation, creating a gradual transition that suggests movement and fading.
The material retains traces of its origin, yet is liberated from its status as a residue to assume a new identity. The work thus reflects on the possibility of transforming an end into a new beginning, just as sunset is not merely the conclusion of the day, but also an opening towards another phase of time.
The work thus becomes a meditation on the beauty of transition: on the capacity of worn-out matter to be reborn in a new form, capable of evoking energy, delicacy and intensity. In Vesper, waste becomes atmosphere and colour, restoring to the exhausted material a poetic presence and a renewed possibility of existence.
Materials used:
paint, tobacco, paper, cellulose, resin
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 75 x 155 x 4cm (framed)
- Framed and ready to hang
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Geometric
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
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Original artwork description
Comprising around 4,500 tobacco sticks, the work takes shape from waste material, having served its purpose and destined to end its life cycle in neglect. Through recovery and reconfiguration, these fragments are instead given a new expressive potential, transforming into visual material.
The title, Vesper, evokes the evening hour, the time of sunset: that suspended moment when the day slowly fades and light transforms into atmosphere. The chromatic transition from fuchsia to orange echoes the very colours of the sky as the sun sets, conveying a warm yet ephemeral vibration. The fragmentation of the surface amplifies this sensation, creating a gradual transition that suggests movement and fading.
The material retains traces of its origin, yet is liberated from its status as a residue to assume a new identity. The work thus reflects on the possibility of transforming an end into a new beginning, just as sunset is not merely the conclusion of the day, but also an opening towards another phase of time.
The work thus becomes a meditation on the beauty of transition: on the capacity of worn-out matter to be reborn in a new form, capable of evoking energy, delicacy and intensity. In Vesper, waste becomes atmosphere and colour, restoring to the exhausted material a poetic presence and a renewed possibility of existence.
Materials used:
paint, tobacco, paper, cellulose, resin
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Panel / Board / MDF
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 75 x 155 x 4cm (framed)
- Framed and ready to hang
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Geometric
- Subject: Abstract and non-figurative
